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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I sure hope not. They can pay for their own stadium.[/quote]

This.  [b]The NFL is in decline[/b], most especially the Redskins.  I used to be a huge Skins fan, but now I say good riddance.  Let them wither on the vine in MD OR they can fund their own stadium.  Not one tax dollar should be spent on a stadium used 8 times a year.[/quote]

No, it isn't: TV ratings have rebounded and are up 10 percent over the past two seasons, and the league is on the verge of signing new TV deals that will bring in billions to the game. NFL football is really the only reliable thing left for broadcasters. And it will take merely one good season -- hell, one [i]middling[/i] season -- for the mouth-breathing Redskins fans to forget the mediocrity of the past two decades and come back into the fold.

This isn't to say tax money should be spent on a new stadium. It shouldn't. But that cretin Bowser seems hellbent on making this happen, despite the optics, because the developers who line her pocketbook will be the ones who benefit. Frankly, any decision she makes should be framed around "does it benefit developers" thinking.[/quote]

Just like the up-zoning of neighborhoods and Comprehensive Plan changes that she is trying to rush through.  It would be an incredible windfall for her developer friends.  But of course.

Wait for Bowser et al to assert that paying for a new 'Skins stadium is all about affordable housing.   :lol: [/quote]

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